HighPost Capital, a non-public fairness agency co-founded by Jeff Bezos’s half-brother Mark Bezos, has invested £7.3 million (US$9.9 million) in UK-based chain WatchHouse as the corporate prepares for U.S. enlargement.
In keeping with preliminary reporting from The Occasions of London, the $9.9 million is a part of a Collection B spherical price $14.8 million. HighPost Capital, which relies within the U.S., stated it led the spherical in December 2025.
WatchHouse presently has two U.S. espresso retailers, each in high-profile places in New York Metropolis. The corporate opened its first U.S. store at 660 Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan in 2024, working as a daytime espresso bar that transitions into cocktails and light-weight bites within the night. The second U.S. store opened contained in the Chrysler Constructing in June 2025.
The WatchHouse espresso bar on the Chrysler Constructing location in New York. 2025 courtesy picture.
The corporate has been roasting for its New York retailers on the Shared Roasting co-roastery in Brooklyn.
“Our beverage choices in New York carefully mirror these within the UK, with a dedication to consistency and high quality throughout each markets,” WatchHouse Founder and CEO Roland Horne informed DCN as the primary New York store opened.
Horne based the corporate in 2014 in a small former watch home on Bermondsey Avenue in London. The enterprise has grown right into a design-forward chain with an emphasis on espresso, seasonal meals and what it calls its “Rarities” program of restricted pourovers.
The corporate’s web site lists 22 UK places, plus a number of extra which are listed as “coming quickly.”
Final 12 months, WatchHouse acquired 5 places of French artisan patisserie model Orée Boulangerie.
“Roland and his visionary workforce have constructed a powerful enterprise with a powerful worldwide following and damaged by in what’s a fragmented and aggressive sector,” HighPost Capital Co-Founder and CEO Davis Moross stated in a press launch. “We look ahead to supporting their enlargement efforts.”
[Note: This story has been updated since its original publication to include a statement from HighPost Capital Co-Founder David Moross.]
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